Sit down and eat like a mentch TB Yoma 25

 Some parents constantly have to tell their children to sit down and eat their supper. A friend of mine told me story about her daughter. When her daughter was three years old and just couldn’t sit still she asked her, “Can you sit down and eat like a human being?” The bright little girl looked up at her mother and asked, “Can you sit down and eat like a rabbit?”

The lottery was held in the Chamber of Hewn Stone (לשכת הגזית). To prove the half this chamber was in the Temple’s court half was outside the Temple’s precincts the Gemara says

“Abaye explains these inferences: As, were it to enter your mind that the Chamber of Hewn Stone stood entirely in the sacred area, how could one say that an Elder sat in its west? Didn’t the Master say: There is no sitting allowed in the Temple courtyard except for kings of the house of David alone? The Elder must therefore have been sitting in an area external to the Temple courtyard area.

"And if it were to enter your mind to say the opposite, that the chamber stood entirely in the non-sacred area, how could the lottery be held in the east? Aren’t we required to fulfill the verse: “In the House of God we walked with the throng” (Psalms 55:15), from where it was derived earlier that it is desirable that the lotteries cause a commotion in the House of God, i.e., in the sacred area of the Temple? If the lottery were held in a non-sacred area, there would not be a fulfillment of this verse. Rather, one must conclude from this baraita that the chamber was situated half in the sacred area of the Temple and half in the non-sacred area.”(Sefaria.org translation)

Tosefot ד"ה אֵין יְשִׁיבָה בַּעֲזָרָה cites a contradiction. In massekhet TB Zevakhim16a a kohen must eat the sacrifice sitting down and in our Gemara only the king may sit in the Temple’s courtyard. If only the king is allowed to sit in the Temples courtyard, how can the poor kohen fulfill his obligation eating the sacrifice sitting down?

The Tosefot provides three different answers to solve this contradiction. One, the sacrifices under discussion were kodashin kalim (like the Paschal Lamb) and could be eaten anywhere in Jerusalem. Two, eating the sacrifice was part and parcel of the worship service; consequently, eating sitting down in the Temple’s courtyard was the appropriate end of the sacrifice. Three, the sacrifice had to be eaten in a regal manner. Since kings eat sitting down, permission was given to the priest to eat the sacrifices sitting down.

After all the hard work that sacrifices entailed, I'm sure that the kohen was happy to sit down, rest his weary bones and eat his portion of the korban.